how do i make it so the url doesnt go all urlish on me?

[miles_rich]

how do i stop the url of a submitted form doing this??

time=12%3A00

so that it stays ast 12:30 and not go to the url code %3A

[jeremuck]

you can use the POST method, isntead of the GET method.

to get it back from it's original form, I think you can use [man]url_decode[/man]

[darknuke]

yea... its only natural for a browser to do that, but you could use the eregi_replace() [http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eregi-replace.php] function if it becomes a real problem

[Weedpacket]

Indeed, it's part of the http standard that characters with a special meaningin in URLs (like :, for example) get encoded in that way - otherwise there's a risk of the URL breaking. The server/PHP would convert the encoded values back on its own, however.

To do it by hand, see the urlencode() and urldecode() functions.